COMING SOON: JR x MÄRKLIN MESSAGE WAGONS
We are very proud to announce our first collaboration with the artist JR
GIVING PEOPLE A FACE
A collaboration that brings the fascination for trains of the French artist JR to the small works of art of Märklin model railroads.
The collection shows a specially created motif on a Gauge 1 wagon
(scale 1 : 32 / length 15.16 inch - 34.5 cm)
and on an Gauge H0 wagon (scale 1:87 / length 5.59 inch - 14.2 cm).
The sale will be offered as part of a raffle from November 19th , 2026 for 8 days.
During this period, you can apply to purchase a wagon from the collaboration.
More details at this point from November 9th 2026
Look forward to Märklin's first collaboration with JR, featuring his signature photographic style, in which he restores a sense of uniqueness to people on the margins of society—preferably on trains:
French artist JR creates monumental public art
projects that inspire passersby to ask questions and
confront their own perceptions. He soon began
working internationally. Pasting for example the eyes
of women on train cars in Kibera, Kenya (2009). He
seeks to involve everyone in the act of artistic
creation, hoping to create conversations and foster social change.
His most recent work was the
transformation of Paris’s PontNeuf into a massive, walk-through mountain landscape called “La Caverne du Pont Neuf,” which drew hundreds of thousands of people to the banks of the Seine in June 2026.
Model trains and art represent a perfect
symbiosis for JR. Using model trains, he created
the moving work of art “Eye Contact” 2018 that
reveals its full impact in just a single moment
▶ Watch the video
The 2017 installation “Mind the Gap” depicts moving trains, and here, too, there is only that one moment when a mosaic is formed solely through movement and from a specific perspective.
▶ Watch the video
Now the time has come: the JR x Märklin Message Wagons
are now available to all art lovers for a short time!
Stay tuned until November 19th, 2026 – discover right here
the fascinating JR x Märklin Message Wagons
Visit JR’s Website
Copyrights for images:
all images © JR, unless otherwise stated:
Portrait of JR, 2022 © Photographer Grégoire Machavoine
Portrait of JR, 2023 © Photographer Claire Dorn, Courtesy of Perrotin gallery
JR – Eye Contact serie, Trains, 2018 © Photographer Guillaume Ziccarelli,
courtesy of Perrotin gallery
JR – Mind the Gap, 2017 at Château La Coste © Photographer Stéphane Aboudaram l WE ARE CONTENT(s)